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All these public opinion polls showing Joe Biden trouncing Donald Trump in the November election for president of the United States are beginning to tempt me beyond my strength.<\/p>\n

I have to keep reminding myself: The polling said Hillary Clinton would cruise to victory over Trump in 2016; she didn\u2019t cruise to the victory circle, but ended up making the concession phone call to the celebrity TV host\/real estate developer\/beauty pageant operator\/rich kid who got the stake from Daddy. He was the guy who won!<\/p>\n

I look back on that fiasco and I keep having to remind myself about this, too: If Joe Biden repeats the mistakes that Clinton made in \u201916, then Trump is going to thumb his nose at the country once more \u2026 and we get this Bozo for another four years!<\/p>\n

It is my fondest political hope at this moment that Biden\u2019s team is smarter than Hillary\u2019s team. That it knows to put the candidate front and center in \u201cbattleground states\u201d that Clinton ignored as the candidates headed down the home stretch four years ago. I recall watching the returns in 2016 when Trump was declared the winner in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Bill Clinton\u2019s election guru, James Carville, telling the nation that he didn\u2019t like what he was seeing. Neither did many others, James.<\/p>\n

The RealClearPolitics average of the reputable polls puts Biden up by 10 points. He\u2019s been inching up and away from Trump ever since the president blew the pandemic response to smithereens and then threatened peaceful protesters with \u201cthousands and thousands of heavily armed troops\u201d as they marched against police brutality. I need to mention here that the RCP poll average called Hillary Clinton\u2019s margin over Trump accurately in 2016; it just didn\u2019t figure the Electoral College trickery \u2013 albeit all legal and constitutional \u2013 that Trump pulled off to win the election.<\/p>\n

Oh, how I hope we don\u2019t see a repeat of that fiasco, disaster, fluke .. and profound mistake that the nation made when it cast its electoral votes for someone who is unfit for the only public service office he ever sought.<\/p>\n\n

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All these public opinion polls showing Joe Biden trouncing Donald Trump in the November election for president of the United States are beginning to tempt me beyond my strength. I have to keep reminding myself: The polling said Hillary Clinton would cruise to victory over Trump in 2016; she didn\u2019t cruise to the victory circle, … Continue reading Please, please … no repeat of 2016!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,1551,2139,2505],"class_list":["post-43323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43324,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43323\/revisions\/43324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}